Western Junipers are strong growers in the right environment. The change in foliage growth and ramification from 8/12 to8/14 is dramatic. Water, a little fertilizer, repot and put it out in the sunshine.

Final preparative repotting. We have worked improve the rootage on this tree, while at the same time repositioning the tree to the front and angle required. I got this older Yamaaki pot from Japan. It is deeper than its predecessor which allowed us to full stand the tree up, it is also narrower front to back. We were able to remove the extraneous roots showing as a mass on the soil surface.

There probably aren't many Western Junipers that are any better than this one. Will you consider reducing the left side at any point? Seems like the apex points back to the right, so if you chose to get the foilage pointing in that direction it'd look nice.

Do you have any pictures of the tree as you bought it from @boon? (Maybe he does?)

There may be a picture from Boon, will ask. If you go back to the first picture from 2009, you see the tree in a large round mica drum, which is tilted up near the angle is now. The tree was in a 2'x4' or so box, laying on the pumice with the single branch pointing out and somewhat up. First potting in 2008 we raised it up as much as we could comfortably in the pot, we could have transformed it quicker with a deeper box instead of the pot. In 2013 it was repotted in to the deeper chinese rectangle, but we still couldn't get the tree fully tipped forward and turned in the pot. So now, 3 years later, we have it in a deeper pot and could reduce the surface root tangle, which had originally been buried in the box, and to reduce a few large roots to turn the tree in the pot.

The tree will be styled again, with the change of position some elements will need to be repositioned, possibly reduced.

To be honest, we thought it would be a very different tree, more if a slant, that would be created by grafting. After getting it settled, doing the two day work shop with Akio, getting the sole branch to bend in to the current position, it made sense to make the tree more upright.

In short, I wanted a big slanting Kishu, we came up with a better plan.

Final preparative repotting. We have worked improve the rootage on this tree, while at the same time repositioning the tree to the front and angle required. I got this older Yamaaki pot from Japan. It is deeper than its predecessor which allowed us to full stand the tree up, it is also narrower front to back. We were able to remove the extraneous roots showing as a mass on the soil surface.

I had to open the last styled pic up and compare it with this one. The changes are subtle, but it is much improved ...if that makes sense. Earlier I'd asked about reducing the left side. I'm not sure what I was seeing before, but the most recent styling cements that as NOT the way to go. (As if you were taking styling tips from me to begin with...)

Its hard to tell since the angle seems to be from a little lower in the most recent picture, but have you let the apex grow just a bit?